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THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET<br/>
<span class=large>EZEKIEL</span>
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CHAPTER 23
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Two sisters, Samaria and Jerusalem, committed whoredoms by worshipping idols—Both are destroyed for their lewdness.
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The</span> word of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> came again unto me, saying,
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Son of man, there were two women, the <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/23/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 3: 7 (7-8, 10); Ezek. 16: 46 (45-46, 61).">daughters</a> of one mother:
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And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity.
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And the names of them <i>were</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/23/4a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB A tent.">Aholah</a> the elder, and <sup>b</sup><a href="ezek/23/4b" mark="b" type="P" title="HEB My tent is in her.">Aholibah</a> her sister: and they were mine, and they bare sons and daughters.  Thus <i>were</i> their names; Samaria <i>is</i> Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah.
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And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/23/5a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 15: 19; 2 Kgs. 17: 6 (3-6); Hosea 8: 9.">Assyrians</a> <i>her</i> neighbours,
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<i>Which were</i> clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses.
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Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all them <i>that were </i>the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted: with all their idols she defiled herself.
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Neither left she her whoredoms <i>brought</i> from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their whoredom upon her.
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Wherefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted.
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These discovered her nakedness: they took her sons and her daughters, and slew her with the sword: and she became famous among women; for they had executed judgment upon her.
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And when her sister Aholibah saw <i>this,</i> she was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister in <i>her</i> whoredoms.
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She doted upon the <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/23/12a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 16: 7 (7-18); 2 Chr. 28: 16 (16-21); Ezek. 16: 28.">Assyrians</a> <i>her</i> neighbours, captains and rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men.
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Then I saw that she was defiled, <i>that</i> they <i>took</i> both one way,
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And <i>that</i> she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion,
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Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity:
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And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea.
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And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoredom, and she was <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/23/17a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Filthiness.">polluted</a> with them, and her mind was alienated <sup>b</sup><a href="ezek/23/17b" mark="b" type="H" title="JST Ezek. 23: 17  . . .  from me by them.">from</a> them.
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So she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her nakedness: then my mind was alienated from her, like as my mind was alienated from her sister.
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Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.
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For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh <i>is as</i> the flesh of asses, and whose issue <i>is like</i> the issue of horses.
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Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth.
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&#182; Therefore, O Aholibah, thus saith the Lord <span class='smallcaps'>God</span>; Behold, I will raise up thy lovers against thee, <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/23/22a" mark="a" type="H" title="JST Ezek. 23: 22  . . .  by whom thy mind is alienated from me  . . .">from</a> whom thy mind is alienated, and I will bring them <sup>b</sup><a href="ezek/23/22b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ezek. 16: 37.">against</a> thee on every side;
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The Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, <i>and</i> all the Assyrians with them: all of them desirable young men, captains and rulers, great lords and renowned, all of them riding upon horses.
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And they shall come against thee with chariots, wagons, and wheels, and with an assembly of people, <i>which</i> shall set against thee buckler and shield and helmet round about: and I will set judgment before them, and they shall <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/23/24a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 25: 6 (6-7).">judge</a> thee according to their judgments.
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And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal furiously with thee: they shall take away thy nose and thine ears; and thy remnant shall <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/23/25a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Ne. 6: 8.">fall</a> by the sword: they shall take thy sons and thy daughters; and thy residue shall be devoured by the fire.
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They shall also <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/23/26a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 16: 39.">strip</a> thee out of thy clothes, and take away thy fair jewels.
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Thus will I make thy lewdness to cease from thee, and thy whoredom <i>brought</i> from the land of Egypt: so that thou shalt not lift up thine eyes unto them, nor remember Egypt any more.
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For thus saith the Lord <span class='smallcaps'>God</span>; Behold, I will deliver thee into the hand <i>of them</i> whom thou <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/23/28a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 16: 37 (37-41).">hatest</a>, into the hand <i>of them</i> from whom thy mind is alienated:
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And they shall deal with thee hatefully, and shall take away all thy labour, and shall leave thee naked and bare: and the nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be discovered, both thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.
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I will do these <i>things</i> unto thee, because thou hast gone a <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/23/30a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 6: 9.">whoring</a> after the heathen, <i>and</i> because thou art polluted with their idols.
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Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister; therefore will I give her <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/23/31a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 25: 15.">cup</a> into thine hand.
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Thus saith the Lord <span class='smallcaps'>God</span>; Thou shalt drink of thy sister’s cup deep and large: thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in derision; it containeth much.
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Thou shalt be filled with <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/23/33a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 13: 13.">drunkenness</a> and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.
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Thou shalt even drink it and suck <i>it</i> out, and thou shalt break the sherds thereof, and pluck off thine own breasts: for I have spoken <i>it,</i> saith the Lord <span class='smallcaps'>God</span>.
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Therefore thus saith the Lord <span class='smallcaps'>God</span>; Because thou hast <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/23/35a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Unbelief, Unbelievers.">forgotten</a> me, and cast me behind thy back, therefore <sup>b</sup><a href="ezek/23/35b" mark="b" type="D" title="IE bear the consequences of.">bear</a> thou also thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.
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&#182; The <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> said moreover unto me; Son of man, wilt thou judge Aholah and Aholibah?  yea, declare unto them their abominations;
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That they have committed <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/23/37a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Adultery.">adultery</a>, and blood <i>is</i> in their hands, and with their idols have they committed <sup>b</sup><a href="ezek/23/37b" mark="b" type="A" title="Lev. 17: 7; Lev. 20: 5; Jer. 3: 9 (8-9).">adultery</a>, and have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass for them through <i>the fire,</i> to devour <i>them.</i>
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Moreover this they have done unto me: they have <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/23/38a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 51: 51; Ezek. 44: 7.">defiled</a> my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths.
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For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/23/39a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Sacrilege.">profane</a> it; and, lo, thus have they done in the midst of mine <sup>b</sup><a href="ezek/23/39b" mark="b" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 21: 4; D&C 121: 19.">house</a>.  
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And furthermore, that ye have sent for men to come from far, unto whom a messenger <i>was</i> sent; and, lo, they came: for whom thou didst wash thyself, paintedst thy eyes, and deckedst thyself with <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/23/40a" mark="a" type="A" title="Hosea 2: 13.">ornaments</a>,
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And satest upon a stately bed, and a table prepared before it, whereupon thou hast set mine incense and mine oil.
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And a voice of a multitude being at ease <i>was</i> with her: and with the men of the common sort <i>were</i> brought <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/23/42a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB drunkards.">Sabeans</a> from the wilderness, which put bracelets upon their hands, and beautiful crowns upon their heads.
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Then said I unto <i>her that was</i> old in adulteries, Will they now commit whoredoms with her, and she <i>with them?</i>
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Yet they went in unto her, as they go in unto a woman that playeth the harlot: so went they in unto Aholah and unto Aholibah, the lewd women.
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&#182; And the righteous men, they shall <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/23/45a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 16: 38.">judge</a> them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women that shed blood; because they <i>are</i> adulteresses, and blood <i>is</i> in their hands.
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For thus saith the Lord <span class='smallcaps'>God</span>; I will bring up a company upon them, and will give them to be removed and spoiled.
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And the company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords; they shall slay their <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/23/47a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 24: 21.">sons</a> and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.
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Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.
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And they shall recompense your lewdness upon you, and ye shall bear the sins of your <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/23/49a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Idolatry.">idols</a>: and ye shall know that I <i>am</i> the Lord <span class='smallcaps'>God</span>.
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